Lai Qingde said "his heart is not in Taoyuan"! Zhang Shanzheng counterattacked: I can’t talk about other issues before I talk about this

President Lai Qingde, who is also the chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party, attended the founding meeting of the Democratic Progressive Party's Taoyuan mayoral candidate Huang Shijie North District Competition yesterday (18th) evening. He criticized the biggest difference between the current KMT mayor Zhang Shanzheng and Huang Shijie is that "their heart is not in Taoyuan." Zhang Shanzheng attended the "Taoyuan City Women's Support Association Founding Meeting" at noon today (19th). Nearly 500 women came to support. When interviewed, he said that Lai Qingde only talked about this because he could not talk about other issues.

Zhang Shanzheng said, "I think he (Lai Ching-te) said this because he couldn't find other criticisms. He just wanted to criticize this one (his heart is not in Taoyuan)! He could barely hold on for a while. Otherwise, what else would you want him to say? I think he said this because he couldn't find anything else to say."

Taoyuan City Council Speaker Qiu Yisheng also said at the founding meeting of the Women's Support Association that Lai Qingde said that Zhang Shanzheng's heart is not in Taoyuan. There is really nothing else to say. Everyone can see that Zhang Shanzheng has done so well. There are no other issues to find fault with, just say that his heart is not in Taoyuan.

During the meeting, Zhang Shanzheng thanked women's groups for their long-term support and hoped that women sisters would pass on municipal achievements to their families and friends and win the election together. He detailed the results of the city government's maternal and child care and health policies, including that Taoyuan's fertility rate of marriageable women and female labor force participation rate ranked first among the six cities. The city government continues to promote full-stage care policies to support women in balancing family and work. Taoyuan is the first city in the country to provide free low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening to people over the age of 40 who are residents of Taoyuan and are at high risk for lung cancer. As of September 30 this year, 76,853 people have completed the examination, and 438 cases of lung cancer have been diagnosed, of which 404 cases, accounting for 92.2%, are early stage.

In addition, the city government launched Taiwan's first mobile CT vehicle in October last year, and has so far conducted 166 roving screenings, serving 2,881 people, and has included women who have suffered from breast cancer as free lung cancer screening subsidies. Zhang Shanzheng also mentioned that Taoyuan took the lead in the country in establishing the Maternal and Child Development Bureau to provide one-stop services from infants to pregnant women. Starting next year, the elderly care card will also be used more flexibly. He hopes that women will unite and support and work together for the future of Taoyuan.

Including campaign headquarters chairperson Huang Mingong, legislators Lu Yuling, Tu Quanji, Lu Mingzhe and representatives of women's groups attended to support the campaign.